We Didn't Start the Fire Jocelyn + Irais + Jehieli

  • studebaker

    The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company called themselves “The World on Wheels” and made their first electric automobile in 1902, followed their first gas-powered model two years later.
  • Television

    an opportunities to promote education, understanding and culture, across and within borders, and to raise public awareness about important global events that dominate the headlines.
  • Chubby Checkers

    Chubby Checker is an American singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time".
  • Juan Peron

    helped engineer a military coup in 1943
  • joe DiMaggio

    Joe DiMaggio signs a contract with the New York Yankees making him the first $100,000-a-year baseball player
  • Red China

    Territories held by Communists during the Chinese Civil War
  • Harry Truman

    authorize the development of the hydrogen bomb
  • Mickey Mantle

    Amid the threat of Russian satellites and the unsettling dawn of the computer age, Mantle helped affirm our belief in the power of mankind over technology's invasion of our world.
  • Princess Grace

    known as Grace of Monaco and Princess Grace, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death. Prior to her marriage, she starred in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s.
  • Santayana Goodbye

    one of the most important thinkers of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the most prominent champions of critical realism.
  • h bomb

    1st Hydrogen bomb
  • Eisenhower

    focused on the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellites.
  • England's New Queen

    Elizabeth II was crowned queen of the United Kingdom
  • Disney Land

    the Walt Disney Company is a prime example of the inextricable link between pop culture and politics during the Cold War.
  • children of thalidomide

    over 10,000 babies were born worldwide and today fewer than 3,000 survive
  • Little Rock Nine

    9 teenagers stepped up to the front lines in battle for civil rights for all Americans
  • Hula Hoops

    The Hula Hoop was one of the biggest toy fads in history. It's estimated that 80 to 100 million hoop toys were sold in 1958 alone.
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm refused to accept the conventional parameters of Cold War dissent.
  • JFK blown away

    was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
  • foreign debts

    over 80 countries worldwide were burdened with debts to international banks
  • Watergate

    the bugging of political opponents' offices, unauthorized investigations, and the misuse of government agencies for political purposes.
  • Richard Nixon

    us foreign policy (focused on reducing dangers of the cold war among the soviet union and china)
  • Roy Marcus Cohn

    he chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose interrogations of alleged communists during the Cold War “Red Scare” contributed to a chilling effect on freedom of speech and freedom of association in the 1950s.
  • Doris Day

    Day was an advocate for animal welfare and founded several organizations devoted to the cause
  • Bay of Pigs Invation

    The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro's troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.